Posted on 05/10/2012 8:46:18 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
(CNN) -- President Barack Obama's blockbuster announcement that he is in favor of full marriage equality is the most courageous thing he has done since he entered the White House three and a half years ago. Coming after his successful strategy to get Congress to repeal don't ask, don't tell so that gays and lesbians can serve openly in the military and the decision of his Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in federal courts, he has now done nearly as much for gay people as Lyndon Johnson did for African-Americans with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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When informed of the president's action by CNN.com, (former NYC mayor) Koch said, "Someone should write a play about this -- there's so much drama here!"
"The question will be, was he pushed, or are these his real feelings?" Koch continued. "I believe this is how he really feels. I commend him for doing this."
The former mayor pointed out that until today, the president was getting the "worst of both worlds" by continuing to say that his feelings were evolving on this subject. "He was evolving into dust. And now he has evolved into a major figure who should be thanked by the country." Among the president's most fervent supporters, a latent fear remains that this announcement could cost him the election. But a new feeling offers gigantic compensation: the conviction that we really did elect a genuinely transformational president.
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“Is Mitt Romney the Father of Gay Marriage”
Go to the links.
Wow. That’s 100% Wrong. You havent read the court ruling nor understand it.
Romney has consistently opposed SSM.
The flip-flopper on this issue is Obama.
The correct answer to the question is “No”.
No, that is what he has consistently said. But, signing gay marriage into law in Massachusetts indicates he is a liar.
Courts can’t force legislators into creating laws, period.
Good point. Now we know what he was really talking about with “forward”.
I think that the idea for Obama’s “Forward” and MSNBC’s “Lean Forward” were hatched at the same meeting by some of the same people.
Try not to be so succinct next time. You leave me nothing to argue with.
:>)
Sorry.
:-)
Wrong again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodridge_v._Department_of_Public_Health
“In a 50-page, 4–3 ruling on November 18, 2003,[3] the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found that the state may not “deny the protections, benefits and obligations conferred by civil marriage to two individuals of the same sex who wish to marry.”
The court gave the State Legislature 180 days to “take such action as it may deem appropriate” before issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.[1]”
A court has no legal authority to force legislators into making laws.
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